Daily Japanese Thread DJT #1669

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今日も象

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I can understand how this would translate to "well said" but isnt 抜かす a vulgar expression? It doesnt make sense this guy would say a vulgar expression to someone he just called 御仁, or did he just say "omitted"?

or maybe it is a pun

>>147109987
First result on google.

>>147110127
お疲れ様です

>>147109987
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q119856386
「吐かす」とも書き
「言う」という意味で、相手を卑しんで言う言葉です

>>147109907
noice

>>147110236
thnx

>>147109987
That's just how Sasahara talks.

I'm considering doing manga assimilation now so my Japanese can be more natural. Do you think I can even if I can only spend 2 hours a day doing it?

>>147110973
What does "manga assimilation" mean?

>>147110973
>manga assimilation
What the hell even is this? It sounds pretentious as hell. I dislike you.

>>147111041
he means reading

Hi anon. Why are you learning japanese?

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>>147111122
>Not assimilating your manga

>>147111232
Because I'm a socially retarded shut in who can't be fucked to leave the house but still craves productivity

>>147111232
I want to assimilate with the Japanese but my mother won't let me so I have to do it behind her back through my JAV listening practice collection.

>>147111041
You rub a manga page into your face until all the kanji soak into your brain. If you don't do that, you literally can't learn Japanese.

>皮切り
>sens

>>147110973
Just as long as you make sure to get your wife's daughter to help you. Also don't forget to use the proper honorifics and desu/masu forms when talking to her, as you do with friends.

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>>147111041
>>147111122
>>147111290
>>147111339
Fuck you all

>>147111604
Talk normally hipster

> パトカー
> police car
> オトーバイ
> motorcycle

WHAT

>mfw used to complain and project on here all the time about not being able to read shit, especially LNs
>mfw can now read them fine
Progress feels good guys

>>147111694
Patrol car, auto bike.

>>147111840
Alright but why are you still a virgin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amB7_hBWHaA&t=0s
Day 6 guys, keep studying hard!

>>147111677
What the fuck is wrong with the word manga assimilation? Assimilation could mean I'm using vn's, anime, or video a.

Why are you such a retarded shithead?

>>147111840
You're still here so you have a long way to go.

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>>147112000
Kindly calm your autism

> Posted on 12 September 2016, 00:58 UTC by: x666x18 what does it mean pakodachi パコダチ??

Well, what does it mean /djt/?

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>>147112035
Go to hell. Hope you are some highschool drop out neet whose miserable everyday just like me.

>>147112257
元気出して、ヒップスターさん

>>147112234
I'm gonna take a guess and say that it's a portmanteau of パコパコ and 友達

Today I recieved my JLPT certificate.

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Anki is a curse on my progress.
What's your favorite vocab deck?

>>147112505
anon core 5k and my mining deck

>>147112505
My mining deck

>>147112459
Which N? I'm trying to decide whether to take n2 or n1 this year. I know most people here say n1 or sudoku

>>147112505
my mining deck

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>>147111232
for the dick flexing potential

im gonna be the only weeb in the world who can speak nip

>>147112575
Look at the requirements and decide from there

>>147112575
N1.

And you should probably take it too, especially if you feel you could pass N2 with no problems. I'd go for N2 only if you have something to immediately gain from having it.

>>147112399

so fuck buddies? sexfriends? bangbros?

>>147112668
いえす

>>147112668
https://twitter.com/skyk_u2/status/461349459494854657

>>147111232

so I can enjoy my Japanese pornographic literature at it's fullest which includes but is not limited to: h-manga, doujinshi, VNs

>>147112630
Thanks, I'd still have to cram a bit to definitely pass the n2, so hopefully studying for the test specifically instead of anime will help a lot.

>>147112700
なんか嫌な奴だね

>>147113213
>嫌な奴

http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1473700213066.webm

>>147112630
>N1.
おめでとう
So, what are you doing with your newly acquired superpowers?

Continuing fapping to eroge? Reading generic LNs? Planning to go to Japan and rape people?

>>147113503
Is N1 really such a big deal ITT?

>>147113561
Considering 90% of the people here are complete beginners, yeah.

>>147113561
N1 takes minimum 2.5 years to attain. People really shouldn't underestimate it.

>>147113598
I guess. To be honest I mostly observe and sometimes answer questions about language or translations. I'd say that in the last few months the number of people asking such questions ITT got lower.

>>147113561
N1 still means something, that does not mean that you became as good as a Japanese person but you can really enjoy a wide variety of content without having difficulty.

It's a milestone rather than a goal in itself

>>147113663
No it doesn't.

>>147112505

>>147112548
>>147112580
Word

Core makes me want to slit my wrists

>>147114243
To be fair mining decks make me want to do that too

>>147113789
Is your Japanese better than your English?

袖
半袖
長袖

Can't believe core is actually teaching me new words. I must be pretty far now.

>>147114025
University courses I know of are preparing students to pass the N1 after 4 or 5 years.

>>147114482
Please, most standard university courses only bring you up to an N3 level.

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Alright
so i want to learn the japanese so i can enjoy my doujins

What does pic related say?
I see 2 repetitive sentences

>姑
>しゅうとめ
>shuuto-me
>shoot me
I'm always happy when words make sense.

>>147114860
dekinai desu

>>147114860
She's saying it feels good.

>>147114423
If it weren't for core, one might have had the mistaken impression that 半袖 was an open sleeve cut in half legthwise, and 長袖 was an ornate style of sleeve originally featured on the garments of medieval Japanese officials.

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>>147114860

>>147114939
Jokes aside, that word makes absolutely perfect sense. Do you see it?

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>>147114939

>>147114423
Don't forget 振り袖.

>>147114860
"the pleasure of raising a family with your loved one"

Does anyone know is the fullmetal alchemist brotherhood subs on kitsuneko are pre-synced?

How do/did you guys use Tae Kim?

Read it all in one big gulp? Read most and try and jump into reading, using it as a reference? I can't keep any of the grammar rules straight

>>147115499

Skim it once without trying too hard to memorize it all to familiarize yourself, then reference it and DoJG while reading.

What's easier for a first ever read? Hanahira! or Yotsuba?

>>147115800
Shit you want to read.

>duolingo has courses for fucking welsh, hebrew, hungarian
>no jap

why

>>147115800
Probably Yotsuba because it has the reading pack

>>147115800
Probably Hanahira because you can texthook it

Here's a fun sentence.
子供の失敗をやる気に結びつけ成長への糧にできるかどうかは、その時の親の態度如何だ。
Whether or not children's failures can be connected to their motivation and cast as food for growth depends on their parents' attitude at the time.

>>147115876
It's a shame, because the kind of grammar-heavy forced production practice they have going can really round out those areas where Anki practice is lacking.
They have an English course for Japanese speakers, though. Might be fun.

>>147115992
You can texthook manga too you know

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>>147115992
>>147115879

Apparently japs pronounce 4chan as yon-chan or at least that's what one told me

>>147116013
What did you find notable (hard?) about it?

>>147116094
Probably the stuff you want to read, because you will not lose the will to live as you squint at one inscrutable wall of sinograms and sino-japanese squiggles after another.

>>147116218
I heard they call it ホワイトピッグちゃん

>>147115800
I haven't read Hanahira, but I honestly can't imagine any other enjoyable Japanese text being easier than Yotsuba.

>>147116295
Not everything's easy enough for absolute beginners to read

>>147114482
High school courses prepare students for A1 after 5 years

What's your point?

>>147114025
Name one example then. Chinks don't count.

>>147116363
im reading leyline with only around 1500 non-grammar words under my belt and never studied all of tae kim

works fine

>>147116384
moogy said the he aced N1 in 1.5 years by reading VNs. People who take FSI courses (paid to study 7+ hours a day for 1.5 years) probably surpass N1.

>>147116339
>yotsuba
>enjoyable

>>147116013
What a shitty sentence.

>>147116586
And here I was thinking that the reason you were so confident was because you passed it in under 2.5 years yourself.

Here's a tip: stop being an idiot sheep. He's obviously hiding the fact that he learned Japanese in the past, if he even "aced" it at all. You "/a/ celebrity" worshipping faggots serious lack brain cells.

>>147116656
Yotsuba is max 癒やす material desu

>>147116586
>aced

What does this mean?

>>147116717
So you mean it's boring.

>>147116586
You can ace N1 without any knowledge of Japanese if you're lucky.

>>147116668
Not him, but my uncle works in the government, took an FSI course and passed n1 in about a year.

>>147116760

this is honestly just what i did desu

>>147116787
Yes, because he already had some knowledge of Japanese beforehand.

>>147116668
>anyone who's better than me is lying
pretty funny how deluded you are

>>147116801
How many tries?

>>147116733
Mhm, Yotsuba's what's boring, not captain no fun allowed over here

>>147116586
>paid to study 7+ hours a day for 1.5 years
How?

>>147116864
Show some proof then you blabbering ESL idiot. How about you show some of your progress instead of sucking someone's cock?

>>147116942
>buzzword buzzword buzzword
calm down bud, i'm sure you'll eventually get good at japanese if you actually study instead of being jealous at others successes

>>147116996
I'm taking the N1 this December and already scored >250 on the JCAT six months ago. Right now there'e almost nothing I can't read without a dictionary barring classic literature and Japanese politics which I wouldn't understand in English anyway. You were saying?

>jealous at others successes

Nice strawman.

>>147117130
Sounds like you could reach around nice 108 points.

>>147116857
FSI courses start from zero and every person who reaches the end is beyond N1 or they wouldn't be able to do the jobs they trained for.

>>147117130
ah, so you aren't even N1 and you're jealous someone else got it in 1/3 of the time you did kek

not everyone can be good at languages, don't sweat it man. i'm sure you're good at something else like cooking instead

>>147117228
How did you do on N1?

>>147116923
You have to work for the government, and they have to move you to japan for some reason.

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一緒に料理を作ろう

>>147117180
I honestly find it very hard to believe that someone would be able to reach N1 standard in that short a time but I suppose that if you're studying that intensely and drilling JLPT-related questions it could be possible.

http://www.strawpoll.me/11211545

Why did you learn Jap, /a/?

>>147117399
こわっ

>>147117449
to fap

>>147117399
オリーブオイルを使いましょう

>>147117449
>grouping VNs with games
>no LNs or books
>but anime and manga are separate
full retard

>>147117496
Damnit. I knew I missed something.

>>147117449
I guess "bored/no reason", I just did it because as a NEET I have a lot of time, and I wanted to use it doing something somewhat productive

>>147117449
>no porn option
Shitty poll.

>>147116013
Did you get this from Google Translate?

>>147117597
It's from the Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar.

>>147117638
Jesus

>>147117449
暇つぶしかな

>>147117691
Clearly its author didn't get N1 in 2,5 years.

>>147117597
What do you find questionable about that sentence?

What's the story behind 桑原桑原?

>>147118248
Stuff like that can be googled. If you can't read the answers yet, set it as your goal.

>>147118331
I'm sure I'd be able to read it on Japanese yahoo answers or some shit, just wanted someone on here to tell me really

あんましおみやげおみやげ言うとズーズーしい

What the fuck is going on here? Why does he say おみやげ twice and what is ズーズーしい?

>「俺、いっぱいいっぱいなんで、クール系とかやってるわけにもいかないんですよ……」

What does this line mean? In particular the クール系

>…皆知っているだろう
>世界が嘘で満ちている事を！そして真実は隠されている事を！
>愚者は平等と言う！
>しかし皆知っている、世界が平等でない事を！
>愚者は自由と言う！
>しかし皆知っている、世界に自由がない事を！
>愚者は愛と言う！
>しかし皆知っている、愛が人を裏切る事を！
>愚者は人を殺すなと言う！
>しかし皆知っている、世界が殺人で満ちている事を！
>愚者は嘘を付くなと言う！
>しかし皆知っている、愚者こそが嘘付きである事を！
>愚者の嘘を鵜呑みにした者は馬鹿をみる
Is this poetic? It is a piece from Subahibi. Maybe my japanese ain't prepared for this but idk, really...

>>147118977
>ズーズーしい
図々しい

>>147118977
He says it twice to indicate the other person is 図々しい with repeatedly talking about おみやげ.

>>147118999
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1192307751

>>147118977
It's 図図しい if you keep blabbering on and one about おみやげ

>>147118999
Being part of the cool guys.

>>147119089
Which part do you find hard to understand?

>>147119089
It's extremely simple, if it isn't "prepared" for that you shouldn't be reading it.

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>shit like that start appearing
>often random katakanata shit
>still no useful kanjis so I can read at least one tweet from someone from the industry
;_;

>>147119235

What's worst is 交通 is like a thousand words after that.

>>147119202
>>147119208
I understood it but I didn't find it poetic

>>147119311
>Chinese porno choose your own adventure comics
>poetic

>>147119311
Repetition doesn't have to be poetic, you autist. It's just emphasis.

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>>147119089
知っているよ知っているぅ！全部知っているって言ったんだよ！！

>もう西の空は麦よりも綺麗な黄金色だった

What exactly is the meaning of よりも here?

Does this mean that the sky is golden even when compared to wheat (which is also golden), so it emphasizes just how fucking gold colored it is?

>>147119311
It's one of my favorite parts of the entire game, if you don't get anything from lines like that you should probably drop/stall it.

>>147119304
p-please don't make me DESPAIR

>>147119408
Yes.

>>147119411
I am reading it yet, I was watching a short vid.
But I was thinking maybe I don't really understand the nuances so that is why I didn't find it poetic or I don't really understand at all (that would be depressing)

is there any way to auto-hide hiragana in anki decks?
I'm using v2k and the hiragana is shown on the front-side

>>147117449
So I could read my waifu's source material.

Worth it.

>>147119558
I am not* reading it

>>147119571
Can't you edit the hiragana field out in the card editor?

>>147119421
ZETSUBOU

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Dead thread, time for some reading practice! Feel free to just read it or even post your translation attempt!

　戦前の話だ。

　達人が旧日本陸軍の鉄砲の検査官を訪れた時の話……。

　その達人は、その射撃練習を見て、その兵に向かって言い放った。

　“儂に……その鉄砲は当たらんな……”

　その言葉が引き金となり、達人はその言葉を射撃場で試すことになった。

　しかも、一人ではなく六人……用いた銃は拳銃。

　その有効射程距離は25メートル。

　射撃場では人形の代わりにその達人が的の位置に立つ。

　射撃の前の秒読み。

　ひとつ、　ふたつ、　みっつ……。

　六つの銃口が一斉に火を吹く……砂ぼこりがもうもうと舞い上がった。

　何かが投げ飛ばされる音。

　その場にいた者達は我が目を疑った……次の瞬間、六人のうち一人が投げ飛ばされて……地面に伏せていた。

　この達人は言った。

　敵の銃弾より先に赤い光が飛んでくる……それを避けるだけなのだ。

　また剣を相手にしたとき、まず白いモノが振り下ろされ、それを避けると必ずそのあとに本物の剣が振り下ろされるだけ……、

　故に、避ける事は容易。

　そうこの達人は言ったとされる。

　彼の高弟であり自身も合気道の達人と言われた塩田剛三は、達人植芝盛平について“霊能力な物”と語っている。

>>147119634
do i have to do that for all 2000 cards?
i'm new to anki.

>>147120811
Open a card in your deck
Bottom left it says "Edit"
Click "Cards..."

Play with the Front Template until it looks the way you want. It shouldn't be too difficult. The words between {{ and }} are the fields. You can see what the fields are in the Edit screen where you press "Cards..."

>>147120783

Done.

It pre-war story.

Story ...... when the master visited the inspectors of the Imperial Japanese Army's gun.

The gurus, saw the shooting practice, was Ihana' toward his men.

"... It does come as the gun to eagle Do ......"

The word becomes a trigger, gurus had to try the word in the shooting range.

In addition, the gun was used ...... six people instead of one person handgun.

The effective range of 25 meters.

Stand in the master of target position in place of the doll in the shooting range.

Prior to the countdown of the shooting.

One, two, three ....

...... Dust that six of the muzzle blows the fire all at once was a cloud soared.

Sound something is flung.

Situ stomach's our moment of ...... following that doubted my eyes, was face down on the ground ...... one person has been flung out of the six people.

This expert said.

...... Is light red earlier than the enemy of the bullet flies I just avoid it.

Also when the sword to the other party, firstly swung down a white thing, just real sword is swung down always after them and avoid it ...,

Therefore, it is avoided easily.

Are this expert said so.

Gozo Shioda his was told a is himself a master of Aikido disciples is, he said "psychic things" about the master Morihei Ueshiba.

>>147111900
thanks anon

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What's the first thing that goes through your head when you first see に ? What is that particle to you

>>147121290
related

>>147121290
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32AI9fdt2eg

>>147121290
Absolutely nothing goes through my head, I just read it.

>>147121290
Destination of cumshot

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>>147121505
>Absolutely nothing goes through my head, I just read it.
This is what I need

>>147120783
Among many anecdotes from prewar Japan, I will mention this one.

It happened when a certain kendo master visited a gun inspector for Imperial Japanese Army.

The master spoke such towards the inspector, after seeing his firing practice: "That gun shall not hit me."

And so, gun faced the master, those words its trigger, truth to be assessed.

No, not one gun but six, six pistols in six pairs of hands.

Their effective range was 25 meters.

The master took one target's spot on the range.

結末は次回で

>>147121290
I think in or at place.

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おはようおにいちゃん

にほんは白んできたよ

>>147121706
aim for
>>147121505

>>147121822
審判の日

Today I did an hour of anki, watched 2 raw anime eps, read 20 LN pages, read 2 hours of a VN and read 4 chapters of some manga

>>147122295
Today I woke up and lurked DJT, sadpanda, fapped twice, stared at the window and watched New Game 11.

Fuck this blogshit

>>147122295
Today I did my reps for until they were done, then I watched some Anime, went to my local game shop and sifted through magic cards for my new deck, came back and watched New Game 11.

Also, this:
>>147122422
>Fuck this blogshit

>>147121822
妹は早起きね

>>147122422
>>147122485
Jeez new game's on ep 11 already? I wish I could watch anime without jap subs

>>147122422
>>147122485
>tfw New Game is almost over
I don't know if I'll be able to keep on ぞいing without my weekly dose of ひふみ

>>147122655
>I wish I could watch anime without jap subs
If you don't try you never will. New Game is pretty easy.

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>>147122295
I read 聲の形 and 2ch for 30 minutes this morning on the commuting train
I am watching this documentary after I had dinner

I've spent 1 minute writing this post

>>147122744
I do try, I watched the first 5 eps, but I get really frustrated when I miss shit, which happens a lot

I've never understood the concept of more/less than comparisons in this language. I know it involves the kanji for person/way nut I never know which way it's "going".

I think an example would help me.

"Dan has more apples than Tim."

Can you do this for me djt?

>>147122774
>when I miss shit
Just look up the words you don't understand?
It'll take some time but it's worth it.

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>>147122634
はやくおにいちゃんにあいたい

>>147122820
Post a sentence you have trouble with.

>>147122850
It takes way too long, and it's not just a matter of looking up vocab, it's a matter of understanding what they're saying in the first place

I'd rather spend an hour reading a fuck ton of some LN rather than spending that time struggling through a 20 min anime episode anyway

How long before you guys started reading?

i just started learning the kana yesterday, and I'm like 75% confident in my ability to recognize them.

>>147122950
>it's a matter of understanding what they're saying in the first place
Dig that wax outta your ears then, Japanese is very easy to listen to once you have the basic sounds down.
The first thing I did before reading was listening to tons of dorama.

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My only gripe with the Vita version of 空の奇跡SC so far is her voice acting.
It's not like the spoilers in the trailer or the cover art weren't already obvious enough, nay, they just had to have her voice actress go completly over the top with every single line she says.

Best loli status: ruined

>>147123033
Well I've been doing listening practice for 2 or 3 months now and my listening comprehension is still shit

>>147122997
I'll make this easy for you: if you spent more than 40 minutes on learning both hiragana and katakana you have no chance of learning Japanese within the next 15 years. Simply because you're too slow. Don't waste your time.

>>147123093
The only word I remember having had trouble with was 原因 because I searched for げいいん

>>147123178
not him but wouldn't trying to encourage someone to learn be better? are you really saying i should just give up on everything because i'm slow?

>>147123071
>空の奇跡SC
>奇跡
That's why I can't into production. Should be 軌跡.

>>147123319
He's trolling

>>147122917

There's no sentence. I just thought of it and it came to me: how the FUCK would would that be written in Japanese?

Then I realized i simply didn't understand comparisons.

>>147122820
>ダンは
Dan
>チムより
more than Tim

>りんごが有ります
has apples = Dan has more apples than Tim.
>りんごが少ない
fewer apples = Dan has fewer apples than Tim.

I guess.

>お前は
You
>ここの皆さんより
more than everyone here

>怠惰です
lazy = You're lazier than anyone here.

>>147123071
when does SC get good? I'm a couple hours into it and bored. Searching the ghost or whatever part

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>>147123406
>怠惰です
Please don't trigger me.

>>147123178
40 minutes? What are you, a fucking retard? If you didn't learn your kana while taking a dump you have no chance of learning Japanese within the next 15 years. Simply because you're too slow. Don't waste your time.

>>147123406

I don't see 方 anywhere in those sentence.

>>147123319
Some people thrive on empty compliments and spoon feeding, but 4chan is not a place for people like that or like you. Please go back to whatever hug box you came from.

>>147123647
>Having to take a dump

If you didn't instantly know all the kana and kanji from the second you were conceived you have 0 hope of learning Japanese within the next 20 million years, simply because you're too slow. Don't waste your time.

>>147123319
Isn't it way worse to encourage someone, basically tricking them into wasting 2+ years of their life, when you already know that they wont get anywhere?

>>147123438
>searching ghosts
You're in the calm down phase of the despair arc, anon. Chill and remember to do your 掲示板 Quests whenever you get some.

>>147123687
(thing/person)の方が(adjective) = (thing/person) is more (adjective)
often combined with より to compare thing/person to another thing/person

>>147123178
>learning over a kana a minute

yeah okay. I totally believe you anon.

>>147123818
>remember to do your 掲示板 Quests
huh why, I usually skipped them in FC. I don't like side quests...

>>147123687
より is what you want when you're comparing to something.
Using only 方 works with adjectives to make it "it's more {adjective}".
Using it as comparison maybe only with something like this:

>チムとダン
Tim and Dan
>りんごの数は
The number of apples
>ダンの方
belongs to Dan

Something like "between Tim and Dan, Dan has more apples."
Maybe.

>>147124060
Eh, I mainly play it for the characters and the plot.
You miss out on so much by not doing those side quests. It's almost as terrible as taking the wrong Party members to the Onsen or picking Schera over Agate.

Today I watched raws of some anime for little girls and understood half of it.

I dropped a few tears.

>>147124308
The game is already sooooooo slow while only doing the main plot. And I don't see how skipping kill X monster that is blocking road Y is missing out on important stuff.. I did pick Agate though

>>147122820
このクソダンがチム様よりも林檎を持ってやがる
林檎ってさダンくんの方が多いね。チムちゃんかわいそう
林檎の数のことなんですけど。チム様に比べてダン様はずっと大きいと聞いています。

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>>147124410
I'm currently catching up all the episodes I missed these last two weeks.

Does this make any sense whatsoever?

これに行くのは私の夢、出席するべきですか? しかし１年に２回日本に行くのは・・・高すぎます。

The meaning is supposed to be like:

>This [as in this event] is a dream of mine. Should I go to it (or Should I attend it)? Going to Japan twice in one year though...this will be expensive.

Today I did Anki for 36 minutes and then I read a visual novel for 3 hours and 30 minutes.

>>147124626
参加する or 視聴する about attending the event, depending on its type.

>Going to Japan twice in one year though...this will be expensive.
> しかし１年に２回日本に行くのは・・・高すぎます。
The usage of ... in the sentence makes it so fucking *tips fedora*

Don't use べき in that sentence. Read this to understand why
https://kotobank.jp/word/べき-624600

しかし is very formal for such frivolous statement.

>>147124781
グッジャブ！

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>>147124456
You have to channel your inner little girl to understand how Estelle feels right now. You do those side quests mainly to let her escape reality and to meet some cool bros and annoying geezers along the way.

Here's something to make those quests a bit less of a pain.
http://ito.cside.com/kamonet/game2/ed6sc

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ばばあ　の　いろんな　表情

>>147119311
Ok, let me explain what it represents
The quote references the fundamentals of human ethics and morality in modern society. Equality, freedom, truth, etc are what human coexistence is based off.

So by challenging them, by calling them hypocritical, Mamiya is criticising humanity itself. He is saying they are flawed at heart, that attempts to seem honest and pure are nothing but lies. It shows how much he has been betrayed and scorned by those around him, that he sees humans as beings not worth saving. There's parallels here to Christianity's concept of original sin, and the idea that only through a Messiah can we be cleared of our taint and darkness.
Is this Sca-ji's message too? I believe not.

But only by portraying the belief of the opposing school of thought can he rebut them, and display his own philosophical viewpoint towards humanity's value and the meaning of life.

>>147117449
>>147111232
To go to Japan and live there (I enjoyed the times when I stayed with a host family), and to have access to a large range of literature. Also because calling out some Japanese people on their implicit xenophobia or racism is fun.

I don't even like anime. There are some good ones like LOGH, S;G or that one with the pink haired yandere girl, though. The rest are complete and utter shit from what I can tell.

Manga I only use to masturbate. I don't know why anyone would bother to read the text in that, as even in English I just skip it.

Visual novels I can understand wanting to read, however the plot is usually boring or not creative, or can be judged by the images.

I'm also interested in Japanese Buddhist materials, though I suppose just for Mahayana I should have learned Sanskrit.

>>147125219
Fuck off from /a/ weeaboo faggot.

>>147125154
He said N1

>>147125219
If you think Mirai Nikki is good, then you have shit enough taste to enjoy a lot of anime though, you just don't look around enough.

>>147125019
>He is saying they are flawed at heart, that attempts to seem honest and pure are nothing but lies.
This seems hard to understand. It is possible to behave in a compassionate way without lying, without attachment or craving. I don't understand his point.
It is attachment to the values, or aversion to the values, or being deluded as to the values which causes the suffering.

>>147125219
you have autism congrats

>>147125301
Which animes are watched by those with good taste?

I hear about things like SNK but the premise doesn't seem appealing.

>>147124969
僕も雲の髪ほしいな

>>147125349
あいつはテーブルと犯ったんだぞ。単なるキチガイキャラの戯言だからあまり考えることはないよ。

>>147125460
昭和元禄落語心中

>>147117449
I started for video games, but only did my reps halfhearted and didn't really put much effort into it.

But after watching more and more anime, manga, going to conventions and meeting japanese people and finally going to Japan last year, I noticed there is a lot more to Japan than just games.

I'm currently reading a book about Japanese history and it's very interesting and helps a lot if you want to understand the Japanese mind.

>>147125460
Bleach
Evangelion
Dragon Ball
Naruto
Cowboy Bebop

>>147125460
>Which animes are watched by those with good taste?
I watch best anime which is the one with the desperate magical girls you fucking faggot.

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>>147125600
>Bleach
>good taste

>>147125517
that show is garbage

>>147125349
To understand this you have to consider Mamiya's life. He's never known freedom, he's always been treated unequally, he's never had friends or respect or love. To him, the people who preach equality are those who look down and scorn him, the people who preach truth are those who lie the most. So while what you say is true, you have to understand he has no reason to see these ideals as things of value, because they're hopelessly entangled in his mind with suffering and betrayal.

>>147121036
this worked, thanks.

>>147125460
>SNK

Jesus

>>147125600
>Eva
>Bleach
>Naruto

My god

>>147125460
>anime
>good taste
糞ワロタ

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Well I met my goal of reaching the end of core6k without missing a day. 20 of core6k and 20 jyouyou kanji with 100 review a day for 300 days straight.

Im going to keep going obviously but it feels nice to reach a milestone

>>147125600
I am unsure if you are are being serious or ironic, since you have included both a great anime (Eva) and multiple totally shitty anime (the rest).

>>147125760
>100 review a day
I'm sorry.

>>147125760
Please tell me you've been reading as well

>>147125775
>Cowboy Bebop
>Shitty

In what universe is Cowboy Bebop shitty? That shit's great, easily better than Eva at least

>>147125696
Thank you for your eloquent clarification. I'll read more about it.

>>147125870
Back to /v/.

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>>147125775

>>147125760
>168 hours
できない

>>147125892
Wow I think reading that comment just made me forget about 2000 vocabs thanks bro

>>147125760
> 100 review a day

You can see your retention getting worse with time and that's why.

>>147125821
>>147125835

earlier on I was doing more reviews a day but I decided to bring it back down to 100 and supplement it with reading since its obviously more helpful then just grinding cards.

>>147125775
>>147125870
He's clearly joking by listing a bunch of entry level anime to appear as if her were a newfag who doesn't know his shit. You people are too easy to bait.

>that weeb in your Nippon class that only spouts anime phrases
I'm self study but I needed a free humanities credit. But people like this need to leave.

>>147125892
says the crossboarder who can't even identify an obvious shitpost

>>147125932
This is /a/ you really cannot tell most of the time

>>147125501
ただのテーブルじゃないよ
彼女はざくろの机だ！
ざくろの匂いがする
あの可愛い机とゼックスしないほうはおかしいじゃない

>>147125939
>that weeb trying to lecture you about Japan while you're hiding your power level and just nodding along
Nothing is worse.

>>147125870
>In what universe is Cowboy Bebop shitty?
In every single one where it exists.

>>147125939
黙って覚悟しろ貴様

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>>147125760
慶弔

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>関東に来週まで雨が降る
まぁ、涼しいから文句を言いえないよな。

>>147126353
That banana reminds me of oyasumi punpun.

>>147123949

nope

still don't get it

I thought you were supposed to use both 方 and より. hou in the direction the amount is flowing (more) and yori where it's being taken from (less) or some shit

>>147126643
えとね・・・諦めた方がいいと思う

>>147126643
You can use either one or both. Beginner grammar textbooks usually use both to teach them both at the same time.

For example:
車の方が自転車より大きい物です。
>Cars are bigger than bicycles.
車の方が大きいです。
>Cars are bigger.
自転車より大きいです。
>(They're) bigger than bicycles.

The second and third one remove important bits of information because it's implied that both speakers know what is being discussed.

>>147126643
「X」は「Y」より勉強している
X is studying more than Y

「X」の方が複雑だな
X is more complicated/complex.

>>147111677
This is the sort of braindead lowest common denominator trash the Internet has given a platform of expression.
What a fucking waste.

Is there an advanced vocab deck for Anki?
Something above Core10k for example, I am already searching words in the dictionary but I want to boost my learning a little

Is it a waste to reread your favorite manga instead of looking for new ones?

>>147127361
Is it a waste to repost your favorite post instead of writing new ones?

>>147127357
Yes, it's called "mined deck".

>>147127361
Nothing is a waste if you have fun doing it.

>>147127357
Yeah it's called mining

My greatest fear in life is laying on my deathbed in about 3-4 decades and still not be able to understand Japanese.

>>147127361
Eh, depends.

You'll have more context so it will be an easier read, but you'll gain less from it overall.

>>147127361
That question is not really pertinent to Japanese learning but my personal answer is no. If I like something I'll gladly re-read/re-watch it as many times as I feel like it.

>>147127495
>>147127506
>俺はかしこい、ちなみに大好物はチンポミルク

>>147127512
It's up to you really. Practice and you'll get good, procrastinate and you won't.

>>147127361
I always think this when rewatching anime series for listening practie, just because it feels like I'm cheating because I know what's going to happen so I know what to listen out for

>>147127649
There's nothing smart about it, it's pretty much the consensus that a mined deck is the best alternative for somebody who wants to keep doing anki after they're done with an introductory deck like core.

>>147127232
I know right I can't stand hipsters either

>>147127361
It's not a waste, quite the opposite in fact. From a thread or two ago http://indwellinglanguage.com/reread/

>>147127361
Not if you only read it in English before.

N5 pop quiz, part 3.
会議はいくら長くても一時間ぐらいだろう。
The conference will be:
a) at least an hour
b) at most an hour

>>147128067
a

>>147128067
Neither

Should I learn Japanese? I'd use it mainly for watching anime and maybe on a visit to Nipland

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>mfw when I get three wrong in a row.

>>147128067
If those are the only options I'd say b.

>>147128149
>for watching anime
no
>Tourism
Bash your head on the Hiragana wall and take a beginners course. Should be more than sufficient for the usual Tokyo -> Kyoto -> Osaka round-trip.

>>147128149
If you have such little motivation that you're not sure whether to start or not then you wouldn't get very far anyway

Are there any good modern JPN RPG games for PC?
I've been looking on Steam but couldn't find a good one fully JPN.

I tried playing VNs but just reading and reading and nothing happens is kinda boring, so I'm looking for something with plenty of text but still more "playable".

If there isn't I'll have to re-play some emu oldies, but I'd rather leave them on my nostalgia pedestals.

>>147128324
Get a Vita.

>>147111041
He'll assimilate it by fagocytosis. Fitting for such a fag.>>147111041

>>147128324
Steam won't have Japanese text, but you'll find some games with Japanese audio.

The only thing that comes to my mind that maybe have Japanese text is Bunny Must Die, but then you'd have to use the non steam version probably.

>>147111232
Das ist Monobeno.

>>147128324
I am Setsuna has the option to play it in Japanese

>>147128427
ドイツ語がお上手だね。

>>147128324
Evenicle

>>147128415
I played the NekoPara VNs on steam in Japanese

>>147128067
Answer (from DoJG)
>The meeting should last for an hour at the most.

>>147128324
https://vndb.org/g35

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>>147128713
Don't study computer science.

>>147128713
What? That makes no fucking sense. It shouldn't even have anything to do with your native language.

X is at least Y is the same as saying X >= Y
X is at most Y is the same as saying X <= Y

It's so unambiguous you can express it mathematically like that. You're not convincing me your language doesn't have the concepts of larger and smaller embedded into it.

>>147128841
I finished computer science.
Kill me.

>>147128643
Anyone want to explain this?

>casually mention a trifling matter that made me feel exhausted
>get tons of お疲れ様's
The Japanese are so cute.

>>147129879
お疲れ様

>>147129702
いくらXても means "no matter how X"
いくら長くても means "no matter how long"
一時間ぐらい is "about an hour"

No matter how long the meeting lasts it'll probably only be about an hour

It'll be an hour at most

>>147129702
会議はいくら長くても
>No matter how long the meeting (seems to be)
一時間ぐらいだろう。
>it's roughly one hour

At least doesn't make sense here at all, at most isn't correct either I think because you'd say it differently if you wanted to express that.

Depends on the context though. My interpretation would be someone complains about the meeting feeling like hours, and then the other guy says: "no matter how long it feels to you, it's only about an hour."

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>>147128149
>Should I learn Japanese?
Yes, if you don't want to be lied to.

>>147130080
It's not a literal translation. You can easily say "an hour at most" to mean "about an hour" if you're trying to downplay how much time it will take. Doesn't mean there is a hard deadline or something. "Do the dishes, it'll take like 10 minutes at most"

>>147130751
No one in the west would even know what the first one is. Not because of being 'ignorant' but because it's very simplistic design of a food we don't regularly eat. Nothing wrong with that change.

Is it true that I should abstain from watching any anime during the learning period? Can I at least finish hxh?

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>>147130906
This, also no one in the west knows about Japanese hand signs.

>>147130751
お握り and ?

What is the bottom left one called in japanese?

>>147130955
Who told you that?

>>147130906
Would it be acceptable for translators of literature to replace foreign foods with American ones, or is that only OK for video games and cartoons because they're not real art?

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>ドナルド・トランプ
>ドナーディ・ツランプじゃない
ｗ

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>>147128149
Yes. Because of shit like this.

Hi there. Are there any good apps anyone can recommend to learn with? I've had a look at memrise, but for some reason half the words are in russian.

>>147131973
Android apps? Ankidroid, Obenkyo and Takoboto.

>>147131157
いもうと　助けて！

>>147132028
Meant to reply to >>147131996

>>147130955
The only thing you should abstain from during the learning period is shitposting. Also, the learning period lasts forever.

>>147131622
yes

>>147132028
>>147132074
Thank you. I'll look them up.

>>147128841
What do the incomplete brackets mean? Rounding direction?

>>147132669
Yes.

>>147132669
Yes. The technical terms are ceiling function and floor function.

someone drop the rizon irc ください

>>147132720
Yeah, I speak code, not math notation. I already know the constraint but I haven't seen this notation before, and I don't really have a way of knowing for sure that's what the symbols mean since they could be misusing some other symbol.

>>147132816
>Yeah, I speak code, not math notation. I already know the constraint but I haven't seen this notation before
I don't have a reaction image that can express all of this disgust.

>>147133074
I didn't take CS so all my programming knowledge is from watching people argue on the internet, where notation usage is scarce.

what language do you guys code in? my teacher's currently teach us syntax. interesting imo

>>147133189
C++ and bash

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>>147133173
Consider yourself lucky because most of the time I have no idea how to decipher this stuff as well.

>>>/g/

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>>147133280
>i.d.d random variables
>outline capital E param X

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>>147133361
Will you forgive me if I post some Japanese code from work?

Literally developing Fairy's Story 3 and living the dream

>>147133280
You're just dumb, that's all basic stuff. I bet the lecturer went through it all and you were too busy browsing 4chan to notice.

>>147133593
pls marry me ahagon

>>147133593
How many hours do you work?

>>147133707
I lied, that's just some ripped files from a game.

Hey, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but...

There's a manga series I really like, but the scans for most of it that currently exist are not up to my standards, so i'm considering buying the whole series from a place with good resolution digital volumes, and just applying the existing translations to those and doing my own release.

I already got permission from one of the two groups who did translations to do this, and I can do clean up and typsetting on my own.

The issue is, the existing translation seems iffy in a few places. I can see what it should have been in most cases due to my familarity with the series, but I don't into moon in the slightest myself.

What's the best way/place I can get somebody who does into japanese to "proofread" those spots just to confirm they translated it right or my fixes would be improvements?

I don't have money to pay a translator/group to do it (well, I can if I need to...), and again, I don't really need the whole thing translated, just parts of the existing translation to be checked.

>>147133839
I'll do it for ¥100 per page

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普通と思ったんだよ なんだよ

>>147133839
Also I apologize for being a faggot and formatting that post like garbage.